Declaration: After the storm, the sea is still there

"China's economy is an ocean, not a small pond."

"A strong wind and rain can overturn a small pond, but not the sea. After countless storms, the sea is still there! ”

"After more than 5,000 years of hardships and hardships, China is still here! Facing the future, China will always be here! ”

Four years ago, at the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo, President Xi Jinping used the "sea" metaphor for China's economy, declaring to the world the confidence of China's bright future in China's economy, highlighting the confidence that China's economy can maintain healthy and stable development for a long time, and conveying China's belief that it will always provide a stable source of power for world economic growth. The ups and downs and twists and turns of the past four years have continuously confirmed the profound meaning and connotation of President Xi Jinping's words.

Over the past few years, the world economy has been challenged by a variety of uncertainties, and the repeated COVID-19 epidemic has cast a strong shadow on the prospects for economic development. The development divide, the digital divide, the financing divide, the vaccine divide... In the face of the century-old changes in the world and the intertwining of the century epidemic, unilateralism and protectionism have risen, and economic globalization has encountered the reality of adverse currents. As a big country with responsibility and achievements, China has always adhered to the new development concept, faced the proposition of the times with other countries, and firmly built bridges, paved the way, held hands and demolished walls to promote win-win cooperation, cooperation and shared responsibility, cooperation and co-governance of all countries, and promoted the construction of a global community of common destiny for development with practical actions.

In 2020, in the haze of the epidemic, the third CIIE became the largest international economic and trade event held in China under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, with the largest number of participating countries and the combination of online and offline. According to one year, the third CIIE has accumulated a cumulative intention of 72.62 billion US dollars, handing over a bright "report card", injecting strong impetus into international economic and trade cooperation and world economic recovery.

Today, although the epidemic is still raging in many countries and places, the fourth CIIE opened as scheduled in a combination of online and offline. According to the data, nearly 3,000 exhibitors from 127 countries and regions appeared at the enterprise exhibition, and the number of overseas small and medium-sized enterprises participating in the exhibition increased by 30% compared with last year. The exhibition area exceeds 360,000 square meters, the number of participating countries and enterprises exceeds the previous session, the world's top 500 companies and industry leading enterprises have a higher return rate than the previous level, and the number of "first" and "first exhibition" products in some exhibition areas far exceeds the previous three sessions...

One of the purposes of China's insistence on holding the CIIE under special circumstances for the second consecutive year is to help enterprises from all over the world that have encountered difficulties due to the epidemic to tide over the difficulties and move forward hand in hand, bringing warmth and expectations to the world economy that is struggling to recover under multiple risks and challenges. This highlights the strong resilience and vigor of the Chinese economy, reflects people's recognition of the general trend of economic globalization, and highlights the strong attractiveness of the Chinese market.

At present, China has become an important engine of global economic growth, benefiting the world with the most potential consumer market and the most attractive investment destination. Under the epidemic, China has insisted on building a mutually beneficial platform for enterprises from all countries. Ciie, Canton Fair, Service Trade Fair, CICGF... China's national exhibition "matrix" is increasingly rich, with "exhibition power" to deepen the connection between domestic and international markets, and promote the formation of an economic ecosystem integrating international procurement, investment promotion, people-to-people exchanges, and open cooperation. As a reliable force in the global industrial chain supply chain, China has made more and more significant contributions to ensuring the smooth flow of the world's economic and trade meridians and digesting the pressure of global inflation.

From the Chinese market to the world market, from "Made in China" to "Created in China", from "Chinese wisdom" to "world wisdom", the sea of China's economy is injecting a steady stream of warm currents into the development of the world economy. (China Tibet Network Text/Sun Jian)